The U.S. is undergoing two massive demographic changes at once, a rapidly aging population and a dramatic racial shift driven by immigration and interracial marriage. Drawing on Pew Research Center ...

*America’s multiracial population is expanding at a rapid pace, yet the systems used to measure race have not kept up with ...

But even as the baby boomers age, the population of working and young people is also expected to keep rising, in contrast to most other advanced nations. America’s relatively high fertility rate—the ...

From 2007 to 2023, the US experienced a 17 percent decrease in the number of births, from 4.32 million in 2007 to 3.6 million in 2023. And while the falling American birth rate increased slightly ...

America is headed for a depopulation crisis. That, at least, is the major takeaway of a new report released this month by the Congressional Budget Office. According to the CBO, if current trends ...

Since 1968, world population has soared from 3.5 billion to over 8 billion, life expectancy at birth has increased from 56 ...

Clive Crook is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist and member of the editorial board covering economics. Previously, he was deputy editor of the Economist and chief Washington commentator for the Financial ...

WASHINGTON, DC - JULY 25: U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) speaks during a news conference on Medicare Advantage plans in front of the U.S. Capitol on July 25, 2023 in Washington, DC. Joined by ...

The oldest baby boomers — once the vanguard of an American youth that revolutionized U.S. culture and politics — turn 80 in 2026. The generation that twirled the first plastic hula hoops and dressed ...